Modern American History

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    • An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
    • Written by: Ron Chernow
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 34 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 2012-12-30
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • Winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty....

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    • The Possession and Exorcism of Five Contemporary Americans
    • Written by: Malachi Martin
    • Narrated by: Castor Corvus
    • Length: 20 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 2020-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • A chilling and highly convincing account of possession and exorcism in modern America, hailed by NBC Radio as "one of the most stirring books on the contemporary scene"....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the Modern History of the United States of America (U.S. History)
    • Written by: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2022-08-15
    • Language: English
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    • Starting during the renowned 1920s, we’re going to look at what life in the United States was like back then and even find some remarkable mirror images that are a reflection of what life is like during this day and age....

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    • A History of Modern Evangelicalism
    • Written by: Matthew Avery Sutton
    • Narrated by: Tom Beyer
    • Length: 19 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 2023-02-21
    • Language: English
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    • The first comprehensive history of modern American evangelicalism to appear in a generation, American Apocalypse shows how a group of radical Protestants, anticipating the end of the world, paradoxically transformed it....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • Written by: Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 2021-08-31
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This addition to Oxford's Very Short Introductions series traces how Americans have addressed the issues and events of their time and place, whether it is the Civil War, the Great Depression, or the culture wars of today....

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    • A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture
    • Written by: Annelise Heinz
    • Narrated by: Rachel Botchan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 2021-06-21
    • Language: English
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    • Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture illustrates how the spaces between tiles and the moments between games have fostered distinct social cultures in the United States....

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    • Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical
    • Written by: Kevin Winkler
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 2018-09-11
    • Language: English
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    • A fascinating look at the evolution of Bob Fosse as choreographer and director, Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical considers Fosse's career in the context of changes in the Broadway musical theater over four decades....

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    • A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy
    • Written by: David Corn
    • Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
    • Length: 17 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 2022-09-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • #1 New York Times bestselling author and investigative reporter David Corn tells the wild and harrowing story of the Republican Party’s decades-long relationship with far-right extremism, bigotry, and paranoia.​

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    • A History [Modern Library Chronicles]
    • Written by: Gordon S. Wood
    • Narrated by: Jack Garrett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 2005-08-08
    • Language: English
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    • Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood discusses the character and consequences of the revolution....

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    • An Exposé of Modern Crimes, Conspiracies, and Cover-Ups in American Politics
    • Written by: Donald Jeffries
    • Narrated by: Lars Mikaelson
    • Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 2017-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • The US government has spent half the time covering up conspiracies as it has spent helping the American people....

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    • Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
    • Written by: Khalil Gibran Muhammad
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 2017-08-01
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black Southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race....

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    • The Untold Story of Black Train Porters and the Birth of Modern Canada
    • Written by: Cecil Foster
    • Narrated by: Dillon Taylor
    • Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 2020-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • Smartly dressed and smiling, Canada’s black train porters were a familiar sight to the average passenger - yet their minority status rendered them politically invisible, second-class in the social imagination that determined who was and who was not considered Canadian....

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    • Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of Modern American Defense Strategy
    • Written by: Andrew Krepinevich, Barry Watts
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 2015-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The Last Warrior tells Andrew Marshall's story for the first time, in the process providing an unparalleled history of the evolution of the American defense establishment.....

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    • Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism
    • Written by: Kevin M. Kruse
    • Narrated by: Aaron Williamson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 2019-02-12
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In this reappraisal of racial politics, Kevin Kruse explains the causes and consequences of "white flight" in Atlanta and elsewhere. Seeking to understand segregationists on their own terms, White Flight moves past simple stereotypes to explore the meaning of white resistance....

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    • From Indians to Modern History of America: People, Places and Events That Shaped US History
    • Written by: Andrew White
    • Narrated by: Neil Reeves
    • Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 2017-10-31
    • Language: English
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    • How did America become the superpower that it is today? If you have ever wondered this, then this book is for you....

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    • A Military History of the Civil War
    • Written by: Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, Williamson Murray
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 24 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 2017-09-26
    • Language: English
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    • The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen....

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    • John Nelson Darby and the Victorian Conquest of North-American Evangelicalism
    • Written by: Donald H. Akenson
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2018-12-12
    • Language: English
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    • Apocalyptic millennialism is one of the most powerful strands in evangelical Christianity. It is not a single belief, but across many powerful evangelical groups there is general adhesion to faith in the physical return of Jesus in the Second Coming....

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    • 51 Inspiring People from Ancient Africa to Modern-Day U.S.A.
    • Written by: Arlisha Norwood
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 2024-10-08
    • Language: English
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    • Meet extraordinary black heroes throughout history—biographies for kids ages 8 to 12. You’re invited to meet ancient Egyptian rulers, brilliant scientists, legendary musicians, and civil rights activists—all in the same book!

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    • Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics
    • Written by: Terry Golway
    • Narrated by: Adam Grupper
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 2015-01-07
    • Language: English
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    • A major, surprising new history of New York's most famous political machine - Tammany Hall - revealing, beyond the vice and corruption, a birthplace of progressive urban politics....

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    • The Life of Alain Locke
    • Written by: Jeffrey C. Stewart
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 45 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 2019-05-28
    • Language: English
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    • In The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally....

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